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INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND WORLD-CLASS STAFF

Explore your future with law.

The School provides a high quality learning environment with innovative teaching practice and great student support enabling our students to achieve their full potential. Undertake a unique learning experience with the opportunity to be taught by world leading academics who are at the forefront of their fields.

Why law at Queen's

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  • Undergraduate
    Undergraduate Courses
    Course Qualification Duration
    Law LLB 3 years (Full-time)
    Duration 3 years (Full-time)
    Description

    Law looks at the relationships, interactions and transactions between individuals, government and state at a local, regional, national and international level. With a broad focus and application, the law degree encompasses private and public law alongside wider socio-legal perspectives. You will study key aspects of the law and develop a wide range of transferable skills, relevant to your future career....

    Law (Major) with Spanish LLB 4 years (Full-time)
    Duration 4 years (Full-time)
    Description

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    Law (Major) with French LLB 4 years (Full-time)
    Duration 4 years (Full-time)
    Description

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    Law (Major) with Politics LLB 3 years (Full-time)
    Duration 3 years (Full-time)
    Description

    As a joint honours programme, Law with Politics offers students the chance to study for a Qualifying Law Degree whilst also engaging with research in areas such as conflict, co-operation, power and decision making, the result being a highly nuanced degree option. The close relationship with the regional political infrastructure in Northern Ireland creates a unique environment for students to engage....

    Law Senior Status LLB 2 years (Full-time)
    Duration 2 years (Full-time)
    Description

    This graduate entry accelerated law degree offers students the opportunity to study in two years the courses required to allow them to progress to the next stage of their legal education. This degree programme attracts students from the UK, Ireland and North America creating a cosmopolitan learning environment. Students benefit from studying law in one of the oldest and most prestigious Law Schools....

  • Postgraduate Taught
    Postgraduate Taught Courses
    Course Qualification Duration
    International Commercial and Business Law LLM 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Duration 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Description

    The LLM International Commercial and Business Law is designed as a research-led programme for graduates from law and related disciplines who aim to specialise in commercial law, international trade, and cross-border business transactions from a socio-legal perspective. It will help you understand and master the highly dynamic and complex legal and regulatory regimes governing international business....

    Law LLM 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Duration 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Description

    The LLM (Law) provides ambitious graduates with a highly flexible approach to advanced legal studies, focused on the School of Law's specialisms in criminal justice, European law, public and environmental governance, human rights, international business, law and technology and intellectual property law. The programme reflects the School’s global orientation and its culture of critical enquiry....

    Criminology and Criminal Justice LLM 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Duration 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Description

    This exciting, stimulating and topical postgraduate degree programme in Criminology and Criminal Justice is taught by internationally-recognised scholars and researchers who offer students a wide introduction to the study of crime and criminal justice in contemporary society. The programme is also unique insofar as it draws upon Northern Ireland’s experiment in overhauling its criminal justice....

    Law and Technology LLM 1 year (Full-time)
    2 years (Part-time)
    Duration 1 year (Full-time)
    2 years (Part-time)
    Description

    This advanced programme helps students gain a deep appreciation of how law interacts with technological innovation, for instance, with generative AI; or autonomous vehicles; or algorithmic decision-making in courts. What social challenges are posed by technological change? How does law address those challenges? And what impact does technological innovation have on the practice of law?

    Drawing....

    International Human Rights Law LLM 1 year (Full-time)
    2 years (Part-time)
    Duration 1 year (Full-time)
    2 years (Part-time)
    Description

    The protection of human rights at the international and national levels is a fast-moving branch of law. There has been a huge growth in the number and variety of human rights standards set out in international treaties, in national constitutions and in so-called 'soft-law' documents. These standards are not always fully implemented and the mechanisms for trying to get them implemented are sometimes....

    Masters in Law MLaw 4 years (Part-time)
    2 years (Full-time)
    Duration 4 years (Part-time)
    2 years (Full-time)
    Description

    The Masters in Law (MLaw) is an accelerated two-year, full-time (or four-year part-time) postgraduate degree in law.

    The programme provides students from diverse backgrounds with an opportunity to study the foundational law modules which are required for the academic stage of legal qualification. This means that the degree covers those subjects that are generally regarded as pre-requisites....

    Intellectual Property Law LLM 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Duration 2 years (Part-time)
    1 year (Full-time)
    Description

    The LLM in Intellectual Property Law is an innovative programme that offers a unique focus on the intersections between globalisation, creative industries, health and life sciences, new technological challenges, and fundamental rights in the field of intellectual property law. The programme will provide students with a general overview of IP law through three core modules and a flexible structure,....

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    Postgraduate Research Courses
    Course Qualification Duration
    Law MPhil 4 (Part-time) / 2 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Duration 4 (Part-time) / 2 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Description

    The School of Law at Queen’s has over 100 years of achievement in both education and research. We are ranked as a leading centre for legal research in the UK, and our academics are recognised experts at home and abroad.

    We offer MPhil supervision across the legal field, supporting a range of approaches, from the doctrinal to the socio-legal, comparative, criminological and critical.

    Our....

    Law MPhil 4 (Part-time) / 2 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Duration 4 (Part-time) / 2 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Description

    The School of Law at Queen’s has over 100 years of achievement in both education and research. We are ranked as a leading centre for legal research in the UK, and our academics are recognised experts at home and abroad.

    We offer MPhil supervision across the legal field, supporting a range of approaches, from the doctrinal to the socio-legal, comparative, criminological and critical.

    Our....

    Law PhD 6 Calendar Years (Part-time) / 3 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Duration 6 Calendar Years (Part-time) / 3 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Description

    The School of Law has over 100 years of achievement in both education and research. We are ranked as a leading centre for legal research in the UK, and our academics are recognised experts at home and abroad.

    We offer PhD supervision across the legal field, supporting a range of approaches, from the doctrinal to the sociolegal, comparative, criminological and critical.

    Our doctoral....

    Law PhD 6 Calendar Years (Part-time) / 3 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Duration 6 Calendar Years (Part-time) / 3 Calendar Years (Full-time)
    Description

    The School of Law has over 100 years of achievement in both education and research. We are ranked as a leading centre for legal research in the UK, and our academics are recognised experts at home and abroad.

    We offer PhD supervision across the legal field, supporting a range of approaches, from the doctrinal to the sociolegal, comparative, criminological and critical.

    Our doctoral....

Pathways to Qualification
What can I do with a QLD from QUB?

Students obtaining a qualifying law degree (QLD) from Queen's University Belfast have various pathways to qualify as legal professionals in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES

Many of our courses offer the opportunity to take part in overseas exchanges with partner universities in Europe, North America and China. There are opportunities to study or work abroad, supported by schemes such as Erasmus and Study USA. This can significantly enhance the employability of students and the global opportunities open to them.


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WORLD CLASS FACILITIES

The £20m Law School at Queen’s offers students access to world-class facilities such as a fully interactive Moot Court room, various seminar rooms and a Wellbeing room.


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STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Students can join a number of student-led initiatives within the School including the Law Society, the ADR Society and the Street Law Project. Other initiatives include the Queen’s Student Law Journal and the Mooting Society.


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